« All Friends Quotes · William Hazlitt's Page
Friends Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them…
- The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
- Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
- The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their…
- We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them;…
- That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who…
- When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
- However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced…
- He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
- To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass…
- Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
- I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own…
- There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature,…
More Friends Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams